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A Zen Master Explains Life and Death to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind

By Maria Popova

“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.”

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What Death Teaches About Life: An Interview with Frank Ostaseski

Frank Ostaseski, an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and pioneer in end-of-life care, has accompanied over 1,000 people through their dying process.

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Jenn Brown
2019
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You Don’t Become Less by Dying: The Evidence

I’ve given radio shows about my afterlife research from Sydney to Toronto, and from London to LA. Here are some of the more interesting questions that interviewers ask me.

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Stafford Betty
2017
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The Meaning of Death

To find out what is death there must be no distance between death and you who are living with your troubles and all the rest of it; you must understand the significance of death and live with it while you are fairly alert, not completely dead, not quite dead yet.

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Jiddhu Krishnamurti
1956
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Would You Go to a Voodoo Funeral Home? Could You?

Some Afro-Diasporan traditions like Palo Mayombe require certain things to be done with the body after death.

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Lilith Dorsey
2014
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Living the Life You Wish to Live

Stephen and Ondrea Levine, counselors and meditation teachers, sit down with psychotherapist Barbara Platek to speak about easing the transition from life to death.

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Tricycle
2009
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Dial Up the Magic of This Moment: Philosopher Joanna Macy on How Rilke Can Help Us Befriend Our Mortality and Be More Alive

Philosopher Joanna Macy on how Rilke can help us befriend our mortality and be more alive: “Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.”

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Maria Popova
2014
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What We Can Learn from the Dying – Stephen Levine

What people do [when faced with their own death] is to begin looking into their own hearts and into the eyes of those with whom they share their lives. And all too often they find that these aren’t places they’ve looked very deeply before.

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Awaken.com
2019
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Opening to Death

We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or even strange. We will need to learn more about the cycling of life in the rest of the system, and about our connection to the process.

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Stephen Levine
2013
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Ram Dass Is Ready to Die

For more than 50 years, Ram Dass has watched as other nontraditional spiritual leaders have come and gone while he has remained.

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David Marchese
2019
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Can Science Help Us Deal with Death?

The fear of death always comes at or near the top of people’s worst fears. Some psychologists believe that this is such a potent fear, we push it down into the subconscious in order to avoid it.

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Deepak Chopra
2017
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